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Role- Developer, Market Data Systems
Department-Information Systems Department
Location- UK London onsite
Contact- 6 to 1Yr. (Can be extended)
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- The role involves the development and management of the applications/services for which the MDS team has responsibility.
- The principal application used for MDS is Alveo Prime (formerly Asset Control +) although other supporting tools written in-house with Java and JavaScript frameworks form an important part of the platform.
- At its core, Alveo Prime is used to capture, cleanse, and publish the market data needed by the company according to SLAs in time zones in Europe and Asia.
- The Redwood Cronacle scheduler is employed to orchestrate the daily MDS operations ensuring dependencies are met.
- Middleware services are provided to connect the MDS to upstream and downstream systems.
- The role will involve hands-on involvement in all of the above-mentioned systems and processes.
The job holder is expected to have a broad knowledge of the various financial asset classes held by the company and to understand the data requirements for valuing them.
The job holder will work closely with the Head of the MDS platform in the following key areas:
BAU Support for MDS platforms
- Engagement with the nearshore support team to ensure they are capable of Level 1 & 2 support for the MDS (Alveo Prime + Cronacle) and that they are assisted in building a knowledge base and can handle small change items.
- Be able to quickly diagnose issues reported at L3 and communicate effectively with business and technical groups impacted.
- Liaison with data vendors (e.g. Bloomberg) in the event of disruption to the delivery of market data.
- Meeting production SLAs to upstream/downstream systems.
- Interacting with Middleware to resolve ESB file delivery issues.
- Provide support for IPV processes and other Product Control tasks.
- Be the technical point of contact for Windows/Unix/Database support teams for management of production and DR environments.
Ongoing Development for the MDS platform
- Liaise with other ISD teams and business areas that require new functionality and products in the MDS. New requirements should be documented and mapped to an implementation plan.
- Drive the research and development of new services that the MDS can deliver to business areas. For example, providing reporting based on historical analysis of data and enhanced screens for user interaction.
- Coordination of all aspects of the development cycle including version control, testing, release management, and delivery scheduling.
- Management of development and testing environments.
- Work with other developers to co-ordinate project work.
The job holder will also work on tasks as directed by their line manager.
Overall Statement of Responsibility
All employees of the Company at whatever level of seniority have responsibility on a day-to-day basis for ensuring that there are clear and appropriate reporting lines between them and others for whom they are responsible and that any delegation of duties is to suitable persons, subject to appropriate supervision and monitoring.
Experience
- Part of a technical team.
- Working with users, senior management, and stakeholders across multiple disciplines in a pressured environment.
- A strong knowledge of data requirements for various asset classes including bonds, futures, swaps, and F/X.
- At least a basic knowledge of Investment Banking services and business processes
- Understanding of all stages of the project lifecycle including preparation for application release.
- Delivering data management solutions as part of a large and complex change program
Technical Knowledge/Skills
- In-depth understanding of the Alveo Prime platform
- capturing, cleansing, and publishing market data
- configuration of the data model
- mastering data across multiple sources and snap times
- troubleshooting data flows including Formula Engine code
- Excellent knowledge/skills with a scheduler product (eg. Cronacle or Control M).
- Market Data Providers (BBG/Refinitiv) and their products (e.g. Data License).
- Competent knowledge with proven implementation experience of:
- Source control management, preferably using Git/Bitbucket.
- Unit and Integration testing skills, including preparing test scripts and execution.
- Good knowledge with applied experience of Agile design and practices.
- Technical expertise
- Unix
- MS Excel including VBA
- Oracle and/or Sybase
- Java frameworks (eg Spring)
- React/Angular
- R/Python
- XML/XSLT/XSD/XPath
Qualifications
- University Degree or equivalent experience
- Microsoft certifications relevant to the project.
Key behaviors/competencies
- Excellent communication skills in all forms to all audiences, and the ability to promote change.
- Excellent technical analysis and investigatory skills.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills, with a proven track record of delivery.
- Keen interest in the business, and service-focused.
- Analytical, logical, and practical.
- Ability to understand and challenge the detail.
- Keep up-to-date with technologies of relevance to the investment banking industry.
- Thrive in a pressured and demanding environment.
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